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By @AdamRRowe. Check out my art book WORLDS BEYOND TIME: 400+ illustrations, 100+ artists, lots of jokes and facts. https://t.co/KfekD0cbzf
Jan 7, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
For 2024, I’m doing Space Crowd Saturday! Every Saturday, I’ll post a retro sci-fi illustration featuring a bunch of weirdos at a party, pub, wretched hive, you get the picture.

First up is a classic scene by Jack Gaughan, for 'Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction,' March-April 1978 A normal woman, a robot with a long neck and round body, a lumpy orange monster with a single basketball-sized eyeball, and a figure with yellow glowing eyes hidden under a black hood all crowd around an alien bar, being served by a humanoid cat bartender. The trope I'm exploring with Space Crowd Saturday existed before Star Wars, but 'A New Hope' still stands as the biggest popularizer of the concept. Here's Ralph McQuarrie's Mos Eisley Cantina art.

An alien band plays jizz while a Wookie tends bar at a pub full of aliens drinking blue liquid.
A furry goblin alien pulls a ray gun on Han Solo in a pub fillled with other aliens who are watching. R2D2, C3PO, and a stormtrooper watch from the left-hand side.
A white-haired human with goggles walks next to a smaller bald alien under the bright orange sunsets of twin suns. Behind them is a collection of domed buildings and other alien crowds, along with one Stormtrooper.
Nov 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Mobile wallpapers made from Ralph McQuarrie Star Wars art Image ImageImage
Jun 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Bernie Wrightson trading cards
May 4, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
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Ralph McQuarrie
Dec 1, 2021 • 24 tweets • 7 min read
Okay I'm doing an orb thread That first one is the uncredited 1970 cover art to 'A Touch of Strange,' by Theodore Sturgeon. Here's Josh Kirby’s cover art for Keith Laumer's 'The Monitors,' 1971
Feb 20, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Jack Kirby’s Julius Caesar
Jan 2, 2021 • 64 tweets • 23 min read
For 2021, I'm doing Space Skeleton Saturday! Every Saturday, I'll post a skeleton in a spacesuit from a retro science fiction illustration.

First up is the GOAT: Angus McKie's 1976 cover to 'The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 8,' edited by Brian Aldiss and Harry Harrison Image It’s been reused many times since, appearing in the Terran Trade Authority book 'Spacewreck' and as the cover to a 1982 French translation of 'Dune.' In 1984, a poster artist swiped it for the movie 'Def-Con 4' Image